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Re:Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:07PM (#50343776)
> Remember infrared file sharing? Of course you don’t.
Hey, I played with that when I was approximately 8 years old! Also: wireless printing via infrared, instead of those huge parallel printer cables.
Re:Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:21PM (#50330536)
But does it round to 0?
Re:Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:46PM (#50330231)
> A large number of companies offer 0% consumer exposure: Nvidia
I thought they're still selling gaming GPUs? What did I miss?
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:17PM (#50294380)
Fascinating read, thanks! The counterpoint to "slaughtering the golden goose" is: If you're all in with AI, this is the rational thing to do, no?
If AI takes over, search becomes irrelevant, so better extract as much value from search as possible while it's decaying and not dead yet.
Re:Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, ...
on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:23PM (#50253139)
The thing that I've not fully groked here (might be relevant) is that OAI is generating "paper" proofs first, and only then formalizes them in Lean as a separate step.
They've as far as I'm aware not said anywhere how many write ups failed formalization due to a bug in the proof. If we assume that number is low, models would be quite good at one-shotting math proofs. Then it depends if you can replicate the math RL training for chemistry/biology/medicine. Is there enough data out there for that? No idea.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:37PM (#50252720)
Wow. Complexity class separations are really really rare.
Can an expert in sat solving comment if there's any immediate applications of the method from the paper? Or is SAT solving in general pretty far away from worst-case times, and this is a theoretical algorithm which would be hard to apply in practice.
Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:25PM (#50236647)
I'm curious, why would this not turn into an unlimited electricity flatrate? In most parts of the world, consumer electricity is charged by kWh, not as flat payment.
As long as tokens are as energy intense to compute as they are right now, I don't see a flatrate being a viable model.
Re:CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science
on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:27PM (#50155256)
Is math or theoretical Computer Science not "real science"? Whatever one may think about the process, the results are real and are coming from LLMs.
Re:Tesla Roadster
on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:17PM (#50124879)
SpaceX Tesla crossover. Not exactly what was on my bingo sheet today.
Re:Jev Meets the Trolley Problem
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:35PM (#50109080)
It's really funny how the server that Jev pushes from the footbridge onto the tracks in one of the later examples falls on a person, yet all 5 are saved :D
Clearly the model coming up with the graphics didn't fully understand the task.
Re:OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:37PM (#50079896)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...
Not sure why OP would call it amateurish/botched.
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:23PM (#50036224)
I'd add missing MFA as weakness number three, at minimum.
Problem number 4 is that the "password" was leaked, and the company (Pays ApS) didn't figure that out.
Problem number 5 - the "password" belonged to a _former_ employee. How was that account not disabled?
Problem number 6 - how can a company with two employees get access to this register in the first place? Don't they need to show compliance with some security standard that would be not possible to deliver for such a small company?
If you start thinking more about this, more and more problems pop up.
Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc)
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:36AM (#50002877)
There is a long interview with Anders Hejlsberg here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywK3XYYJ2o&pp=ygUbYW5kZXJzI... where he talks about that, in short from what he said 1-2 months ago, I doubt that they will change directions.
Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:09PM (#49984839)
On the other hand, Francis Halzen reportedly never went down to the South Pole to the facility at all, as probably the only person working on IceCube :D
Re:Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:28PM (#49971056)
Let's see:
1. paper
2. cardboard
3. organic
4. metal
5. residual waste
6. batteries
7. hazardous waste
8. garden waste
9. plastic
10. indoor wood
11. large items (i.e. furniture)
12. glass
13. electronics
All of which is picked up from my apartment buildings backyard.
Re:Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:54PM (#49970567)
> all models have search capacities these days
one would hope that they disable websearch and internet access (maybe all tools?) when doing generalization testing?
Re:Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:26AM (#49952936)
> In addition to things like battery-backed smoke detectors in every bedroom, etc, which need periodic 9V replacements on a schedule.
Just as aside, lithium-battery powered smoke detectors are a godsend. The battery lifespan lasts the recommended life span of the detector, i.e. around 10 years. No battery replacements needed, although you still ought to test them once in a while.
Re:Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:22AM (#49952908)
Just 5? Lucky you, here (depending on how you count) we're doing 13 fractions.
Re:Vx – One Language, Every Chip
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:19PM (#49948341)
It doesn't even make sense.
> On Apple's unified memory that transfer compiles to almost nothing. It is still written down, because data locality should be provable by reading the source rather than by profiling the binary.
How does profiling the binary play into this? Elsewhere the hypothesis is "it crashes", whereas profiling is about performance.
> Most languages treat the accelerator as infrastructure: you write math, and a large opaque runtime decides how to ship it. Vx treats it as semantics.
What does that mean? Vx doesn't treat the accelerator as infrastructure? Vx doesn't have a large opaque runtime? "You write math, Vx treats it as semantics". I don't understand that.
Re:Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit
on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:27PM (#49939394)
If launch costs are assumed to be $0/kg, how does that solve the waste heat problem? Add more mass? What about the maintenance of failing hardware?
I'm genuinely curious, I thought basically heat radiation was a hard physical boundary, regardless of launch cost.
Re:With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI–unti...
on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:08PM (#49939223)
That's a bit out of context, no?
The preceding sentence is
> Even DeepMind, with its exceptional budget, couldn’t build a machine that reliably beat the best human players.
so the contrast here is the budget available, not the quality of the talent, if we accept the premise that DeepMind and the universities have approximately similar level of talent.
Re:GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:07PM (#49927098)
Given how flawed the benchmarks are (see for example https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/deepswe/review), not even the mythical 10x developer is gonna get 100% on these benchmarks.
Re:EDG C++ front-end goes public
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:52PM (#49915522)
They also have a distinct style/naming convention, see for example `a_list_entry` as type name.
Re:EDG C++ front-end goes public
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:35PM (#49914022)
Wikipedia claims they have 6 employees, so they didn't exactly enjoy exponential growth over the years ;)
Re:What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic i...
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:22AM (#49889904)
My kettle (Fellow EKG) has an annoying display bug. With a simple prompt, Astra went and downloaded the firmware, disassembled it, interpreted it and confirmed the bug. It also told me that there's a firmware signature check, so I have unfortunately no way of flashing a fixed firmware myself.
I'm not sure I'd be adventurous enough to do that anyways, as I don't know enough about ESP32 microcontrollers to verify what it's doing vs. the chance of bricking my device.
Yet,
Re:Sonnet 5.5
on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:36PM (#49883258)
> but openai went kamikaze
I don't quite understand your point here. OpenAI has a consistent history of releasing cheap/small models - first nano/mini, then luna/terra. Of course, those are now more capable than half a year ago, but I don't see a behavior change from OpenAI here.
Re:Sonnet 5.5
on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:17PM (#49882147)
The latest Haiku release is almost a year old. Clearly they don't care about the small-but-capable part of the market at all.
> to what end?
I'd expect that their business strategy is to compete in more markets, and if successful, they can capture more value. This is the "easiest" for them as they already have GPUs, a training environment etc. For that platform it's not the worst if there's an internal customer team that can help shape the future and provide immediate feedback, and if it results in a good model, even better.
Other things I'd not be surprised they offer in the future in the same vein: A multi-model harness, coding agent (cloud and local), and maybe at a later point in time even a CPU-only cloud compute product.
Re:Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of...
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:59PM (#49858948)
My apologies, and it's too late to edit the parent now.
To be fair, though, I mainly ran this experiment to distinguish models, not to see if they were better than humans or not, so for that purpose it didn't really matter if the basic conditions were the same or not.